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View email online | | | | | Feb 1, 2021 | | | | | | Good afternoon, Welcome to your daily coronavirus news briefing from The Scotsman. Let the news come to you. We're offering six weeks free delivery of our newspaper during lockdown so you can stay informed from the comfort of your home. Or become a digital subscriber from just £3 a month. Find out more here. Small town dubbed nation's 'Covid Capital' A small seaside town has been called Scotland's 'Covid Capital' after an explosion of cases there. Home to just a few thousand people, coronavirus cases in the area surged to among the worst in Scotland after Christmas. Residents have been left shocked by the outbreak, highlighted by a chilling photo of a newsagent's window filled with death notices. Read more about what happened in our in depth insight piece here. Mass vaccination centres open doors Meanwhile, mass vaccination centres have opened in Scotland today. The facilities, in Edinburgh and Aberdeen, will have the capacity to vaccinate thousands of people a week from Covid-19. The centre openings come with the news more than 575,000 people in Scotland have now had their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Find out more about these new centres here. More Covid news this afternoon The latest coronavirus figures for Scotland 111 new cases recorded in the Lothians in the past 24 hours UK could be 'back to normal by summer' if vaccines 70 per cent effective, says SAGE member >> Don't miss the latest breaking coronavirus news as it happens on our live blog. Thank you for reading and stay safe, Ginny - [email protected] | |
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